Submit nominations for the 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award: https://forms.office.com/r/iTjv9S0uUM
The deadline to submit nominations for the 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award is January 16th, 2023.
Established in 1981, the Distinguished Alumni Award recognizes alumni who have demonstrated outstanding professional library or information science achievements at national, state, or local levels, or who have provided outstanding service to SILS or its Alumni Association at the time of the award. Anyone may submit a nomination for a SILS alumna or alumnus to receive the honor. Recipients are selected by the SILS Alumni Association board each year.
2022 - Jane Williams
2021 - Nathaniel King and Jennifer Manning
2020 - Kathryn Cole and Meredith Evans
2019 - Rose Timmons Dawson and Gerald Holmes
2018 - Mary Jane Petrowski
2017 - Donna Shannon
2016 - Xin Fu
2016 - Tim Shearer
2015 - Mae Lipscomb Rodney
2015 - Tim Bucknall
2014 - Susan Brown
2014 - Demetria Tucker
2013 - Joyce L. Ogburn
2013 - Cal Shepard
2012 - Lee Dirks
2012 - Peter McCracken
2011 - John Ulmschneider
2011 - David Goble
2010 - Deborah Balsamo
2010 - Robert Molyneux
2009 - Hampton "Skip" Auld
2009 - Ray English
2008 - Janet Flowers
2008 - Frieda Rosenberg
2007 - Maurice C. York
2007 - Patricia R. Harris
2006 - Dr. Irene Owens
2006 - Evelyn M. Poole-Kober
2005 - Susan Perry
2005 - Larry Alford
2004 - Susan Tarr
2004 - W. Davenport "Dav" Robertson
2003 - Mary L. Boone
2002 - Joan Durrance
2002 - Angela Ruffin
2001 - Charles Bryan Lowry
2001 - Bernie Todd Smith
2000 - Marshall Keys
1999 - June Fulton
1999 - Joe Hewitt
1999 - Duncan Smith
1998 - Martha Harris Davis
1998 - Barbara Semonche
1997 - Robert G. Anthony, Jr.
1997 - James V. Carmichael, Jr.
1997 - Jane Bliss Downs
1997 - Robert S. Martin
1996 - Ridley R. Kessler, Jr.
1996 - Edwin S. Clay III
1996 - Judith K. Sutton
1995 - Rebecca S. Ballentine
1994 - Dale M. Bentz
1994 - Barbara Branson
1994 - Lesley Farmer
1993 - Ray L. Carpenter
1992 - Mary Edna Anders
1992 - Evan Ira Farber
1992 - Lucia Johnson Rather
1992 - Katina P. Strauch
1988 - Jerry Campbell
1987 - Gene Lanier
1986 - Fred W. Roper
1981 - Emerson Greenaway
1981 - Herman Howe Fussler
1981 - Mary Elizabeth Poole
1981 - William Stevens Powell
1981 - Mary Eunice Query
